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IBM teams up with Canonical to deliver Ubuntu Linux Mainframes

IBM and Linux might seem like an odd pairing, but IBM has been "putting various flavors of Linux on its mainframe computers for 15 years." Now, Techcrunch reports that IBM and Canonical have announced a new joint project: the LinuxOne, a powerful mainframe that will run on Ubuntu.

The reality – and efficacy – of bug bounties

Oracle's CSO Mary Ann Davidson issued a scathing critique against independent security researchers last week that came down to one thing: Looking for problems creates problems in the world of security. But according to Dark Reading, Davidson's not quite right. ﻿

Google announces Android "M" stands for Marshmallow; SDK and final preview now available

After launching the Developer Preview of Android M at Google I/O in May, Google today announced the final preview of Android M, which apparently stands for marshmallow. And as Google says, "who doesn't like marshmallows?"

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The effects of IoT on the world of insurance

They'll know where you are, what you eat, when you eat, how much you sleep, if you sleep, and how fast you drive. Your ﻿﻿things will be watching you. Techcrunch look into the impact an Internet of Things will have on your insurance and the impact it's already making now. ﻿

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Employers are using data analytics to help employees manage their time

"A new generation of workplace technology is allowing white-collar jobs to be tracked, tweaked, and managed," according to The New York Times, "and an increasingly wide range of tools [are helping employers] to monitor workers' efforts, help them focus, cheer them on, and just make sure they show up on time." Whether workers should be as happy as managers remains to be seen. ﻿

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"A new generation of workplace technology is allowing white-collar jobs to be tracked, tweaked, and managed," according to The New York Times, "and an increasingly wide range of tools [are helping employers] to monitor workers' efforts, help them focus, cheer them on, and just make sure they show up on time." Whether workers should be as happy as managers remains to be seen. ﻿

Help them relieve themselves of the distraction of freedom, yell at them for not working harder, and just make sure they don't show up 30 seconds late.

Regarding the bug bounties, I agree with Dark Reading... Davidson does not sound quite right... Finding problems doesn't "make new problems", it finds existing problems before they can be exploited (or at least before more people can exploit the weaknesses...). What creates more problems is people that don't apply the patches to fix known vulnerabilities.

That's when problems found become problems, is when people don't patch, or if the problems are not found...

....Oracle's CSO Mary Ann Davidson issued a scathing critique against independent security researchers last week that came down to one thing: Looking for problems creates problems in the world of security.....

"A new generation of workplace technology is allowing white-collar jobs to be tracked, tweaked, and managed," according to The New York Times, "and an increasingly wide range of tools [are helping employers] to monitor workers' efforts, help them focus, cheer them on, and just make sure they show up on time." Whether workers should be as happy as managers remains to be seen. ﻿

Help them relieve themselves of the distraction of freedom, yell at them for not working harder, and just make sure they don't show up 30 seconds late.

Are we still on mainframes? With cloud computing, virtualization, and the latest server technologies that we have, I am wondering why Mainframes haven't yet died already. They've been around for longer than I have been alive.

Is there nothing else that IBM can do besides just making mainframes anymore?

Are we still on mainframes? With cloud computing, virtualization, and the latest server technologies that we have, I am wondering why Mainframes haven't yet died already. They've been around for longer than I have been alive.

Is there nothing else that IBM can do besides just making mainframes anymore?

Are we still on mainframes? With cloud computing, virtualization, and the latest server technologies that we have, I am wondering why Mainframes haven't yet died already. They've been around for longer than I have been alive.

Is there nothing else that IBM can do besides just making mainframes anymore?

The irony is that cloud computing was around probably just as long. Ever heard of time-sharing? Early form of cloud computing. It just wasn't called that back then.

"A new generation of workplace technology is allowing white-collar jobs to be tracked, tweaked, and managed," according to The New York Times, "and an increasingly wide range of tools [are helping employers] to monitor workers' efforts, help them focus, cheer them on, and just make sure they show up on time." Whether workers should be as happy as managers remains to be seen. ﻿

Help them relieve themselves of the distraction of freedom, yell at them for not working harder, and just make sure they don't show up 30 seconds late.

....Oracle's CSO Mary Ann Davidson issued a scathing critique against independent security researchers last week that came down to one thing: Looking for problems creates problems in the world of security.....